The following official records are but a fraction of the history of DV involving Selena Smith (dob: 6-11-76) who has assaulted virtually every person she has resided with since her majority. The records listed here reflect some of the DV associated w/Selena in Thurston County, but do not include many, including the stabbing of her husband while in Germany, the assault on a housemate when residing in Olympia w/Drew (father 0of Maya), the physical altercation in Hawaii while residing w/Jennifer (her roommate), or the assault on her female roommate while attending adult classes in Seattle. Selena also admitted (see 2018 statement from last document excerpt below) to the unprovoked choking of James Wells (now deceased), the father of her two youngest children. Besides being a serious danger to herself and others, she gloated and taunted while I was losing consciousness with the most vile and hateful speech I gave ever heard. She addedm “It was worth it,” revealing her keen understanding what she’d done was wrong and criminal.

11/20/19 TCSO DV Rpt (View Document)

11/15/20 TCSO DV Rpt (View Document)

7/17/21 TCSO DV & Burg Hans Declaration (View Report)

7/17/21 TCSO DV & Burg Kathryn Declaration (View Document)

7/17/21 TCSO DV & Burg Rpt (View Document)

7/17/21 TCSO DV & Burg Supplemental Rpt (View Document)

Thurston Clerk’s Notes & BW in Felony case#:21-1-00676-34 (State v. Selena Smith)
(View Document)

6/10/22 Selena Letter to Prosecutor Jon Tunheim Re: Thurston case #:21-1-00676-34
–>(View Document)<– Selena justifies stabbing her husband, Charles Morris, while failing to mention her assault on her mother, her mother’s husband, various roommates over the years, failure to protect Hazel Smith (her young autistic child) from assault & hospitalization in Colorado, and even her treatment of Maya (her oldest daughter) when the baby was still in diapers while in Alaska. She also fails to mention leaving Maya alone on the streets of Olympia to garner Drew’s attention (Maya’s father, since deceased), then abandoning Onawa in California to garner James Wells’ attention (Onawa’s father, since deceased). All of the father’s of Selena’s children have come to a bad end. She has assaulted both of her parents and her step-father (Hans, since deceased)–very nearly murdering her own father by strangulation on 1-8-25. Her life story is replete with Perils of Penelope, hog tying by drug cartels, interstate flight to evade her pursuers and prosecution, jumping bail in Thurston cae #:21-1-00676-34, stealing a van in Portland to flee to Slab City, California, then selling it after arrival before fleeing to Washington, D.C. whre she lived on the streets for years while working under the table for an alternative newspaper or selling marijuanna contrary to federal law in a federal enclave. Selena is no longer merely a scofflaw, but a violent outlaw. She no longer has any support network or reliable friends–nor does she deserve any. In her eyes, charity is offered by suckers. She has bitten every hand that’s fed her, used her children as a foundation for charity and her support, used her own kin cynically and piteously. Frankly, Selena is the very essence of a bawling cow with tears streaming down its face because it is standing on its own teat.

21.9.7 TCSO DV Rpt (View Document)

21.9.7 TCSO James Wells RP (View Document)

21.9.7 TCSO Hans Stoker RP (View Document)

20.5.1 TCSO Selena Contact (View Document)

20.5.2 TCSO James Wells RP (View Document)

20.6.7 TCSO DV Rpt (View Document)

20.6.7 TCSO Gun Theft Rpt (View Document)

20.6.12 TCSO CPS Inquiry (View Document)

20.8.7 TCSO DV Selena RP (View Document)

20.11.11 TCSO DV James RP (View Document)

20.11.15 TCSO DV Hans RP (View Document)

20.11.21 TCSO DV Selena RP (View Document)

20.12.6 TCSO DVPO Kathryn RP (View Document)

20.12.10 TCSO DVSO Query Selena RP (View Document)

20.12.13 TCSO DVPO Gun Selena RP (View Document)

21.4.21 TCSO Welfare Chk NJ Sec Grd Robert Kurtz RP (View Document)

21.4.21 TCSO Followup Hans RP falsely claiming Selena’s children as his grandchildren
(View Document)

21.7.12 TCSO Rpt impersonation by Kurtz – John Smith RP (View Document)

21.7.14 TCSO Rpt Jim’s Inv Priv – John Smith RP (View Document)

21.7.14 TCSO Rpt John Smith RP (View Document)

21.7.14 TCSO Cmpnt John Smith RP (View Document)

21,7,17 YVSO Burglary Jat Stoker RP (View Document)

(Page 6/49 California psychiatric hospital assessment)
Episode 1: (1124) CRISIS STABILIZATION UNIT-ALL AGE 10/12/2018 – 10/13/2018
Client: Selena Smith (000078296)
Submitted 10/14/2018 at 07:17 PM by AMANDA BURNFIN
1201 Crisis Assessment
Assessment Date: 10/13/2018
Assessment Time: 08:03 AM
Staff /Practitioner completing form: BURNFIN,AMANDA (011541)
Legal Status: 5150, VOL
Current Psychiatric Symptoms and Behavior (including onset and course of symptoms in
support of DSM diagnosis):

The client is a 42 year old female who self-presented due to anxiety/paranoia and
she was placed on a 5150 GD hold. The client presented with paranoia,
disorganized thought process, and irritable in affect. The client reported she had
driven up and down California and to Idaho from her residence in Olympia, WA
with her young 5/6 rronth old daughter Onawa. The client presents disheveled in
appearance, has long dark blonde dreads, is 61 3″ in height, and was highly
anxious to irritable in affect during interview. The client’s blood pressure slightly
elevated, appeared highly anxious “can you call my family to tell them I have high
blood pressure? … You will take me to the hospital if I need to go right?” The client
stated belief that her partner and friends may have taken off with her baby,
since “Sky” had not returned her call this rrorning. The client yelled at her rrother
on the phone at one point, demanding she find out rrore details on the baby. The
client struggled to describe linear sequence of events leading to her admission
and became highly irritable when psychiatrist or staff asked questions for
clarification.

Per client’s rrother, client has history of schizophrenia, worsening symptoms
recently. The client, client’s partner, and client’s 5/6 rronth old had been living in
the rrother’s guest house in Olympia, WA.

Per client’s partner, ‘Toke,” [James Wells, since deceased] the partner had left the client on September 20th,2018 after the client [Selena] had become physically assaultive towards the partner [James].
(partner said client “tackled” him while he had the baby; client [Selena] said she “choked”
partner while he had the baby so she can get the baby). The partner [James] went to
stay with a friend “up in the rrountains. The partner [James] said he got a call from his
friend [Sky] in Humboldt County on 10/11/2018 that the client had dropped off the 5/6
rronth old daughter with friend [Sky] and reported she had seemed to not intend to
return. The partner [James] drove to Eureka to collect his 5/6 rronth old daughter. The
client [Selena] attempted to collect the daughter the next day.

The client [Selena] was admitted to SV for further evaluation and stabilization.
Daniel “Sky”, friend, 707-601-4312

Case Information

25-1-00012-23 | STATE OF WASHINGTON vs SMITH, SELENA URSA

Case Number
25-1-00012-23

Court
Mason

File Date
01/09/2025

Case Type
PRE Pre Filing – Adult

Case Status
Active

Party

Plaintiff (Criminal)
STATE OF WASHINGTON

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Defendant (WIP)
SMITH, SELENA URSA

DOB
6/11/1976

• Verified Name Match Selena Ursa Smith OLYMPIA, WA
• 48
• • Olympia, WA
  • Lacey, WA
  • Portland, OR
  • Nunn, CO
  • Denver, CO
  • Lafayette, CO
  • Las Vegas, NV
  • Riverside, CA
  • San Diego, CA
  • Centralia, WA
  • Apo, AE
  • Jber, AK
  • Charles Morris
  • Kathryn Stoker
  • Hans Stoker
  • Maya Stoker
  • Chad Stoker

Charge

Charges
SMITH, SELENA URSA

		Description	Statute	Level	Date
	1	Non-Charge	NON	Non Charge	01/08/2025

Events and Hearings

• 01/09/2025 Preliminary Appearance Original Type
  Preliminary Appearance Judicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D Hearing Time
  1:15 PM Result
  Held Comment (ZOOM ID:907 729 4239)
  (Judge Cobb recused himself from any further hearings in the instant case)
  1:15 Parties Present Defendant (WIP): SMITH, SELENA URSA
• 01/09/2025 Affidavit of Probable Cause
• Booking #: 25-0025 Name: SMITH, SELENA U Name Number: 302216
• Book Date: 14:30:00 01/08/25
• Rel Date: No Rel Date
• Statute Offense Court Offense Class
• 9A.36.021.2.DV Domestic Violence SUPR DOMV FB
• 9A.40.040 Kidnapping, Abduction SUPR KIDN FC
• 9A.36.150 Domestic Violence
  
  

(During Selena’s arrest, Deputies were seen counting a large sum of cash found in her backpack.)

Charles Anthony Morris (Selena’s ex) sharing a photo of his wife’s tender embrace w/family.

Charles Morris letter to family (View Document)

Maya Smith/(Stoker) Declaration excoriating Selena (her mom) for DV filed in Thurston County Family Court in case #:21-4-00443-34 (Emergency Guardianship Petition)
View Document — Maya is Selena’s oldest child & daughter of independent means due to the death of her father (Drew) amd changing her name to Stoker to ingratiate herself w/her multi-millionaire maternal grandmother and Stoker clan…quite successfully it might be added given the wording in the Last Will of Hans Stoker. Ironically, Maya is silent about the heated arguments her grandmother had w/Hans. That would have chilled the financial ardor of her benefactors, cheapening her newly adopted “brand”.

25.1.8 Selena’s call to 911 trivializing and justifying her vicious assault, ripping the phone out of the wall while ordreing me not to call the police before pushing me over backwards in my wheel chair (keenly aware of my fragile health in detail) and struggling with me for about 8 minutes to wrest my cell phone from my hands. I asked her repeatedly tp get pff of me and let me get up, but she refused unless I promised not to call the police. Then she renewed her effort to wrest my cell phone from me, saying she’d let me up if I gave it to her, finally choking me nearly into unconciousness while gloating and taunting me with her imagined grievances. Nobody called her a ‘bitch’ or ‘abused’ her in any way. On the contrary, she was being counseled on the futility of remaining a fugitive if she ever wanted to see her children. She lied about injuring me. The responding deputy observed my eyes were bleeding from being choked and I could not see clearly through the blood in my eyes the resulted from the hemmorhaging. Everytime Selena has assaulted another person, she inevitably tried to justify it and/or trivialize it. I’m lucky to be alive. Selen admits to the 911 operator she got off on trying to squeeze the life out of me when she strangled me. Her actions may not have been premeditated for longer than the time it took her, but her actions were very deliberate and satisfying to her according to Selena. She’s looking at a felony trial (burglary) for the DV incident where she entered her mother’s home in 2021 (July) before kicking her when Deputies tried to separate Selena from her small children. Selena’s mom had acquired legal custody of them after a contentious and unfair Guardianship proceeding w/o representation or a right to a jury trial. What’s apparent here is Selena trying to lie her way out of yet another predicament she caused. Selena is fulll of hate towards virtually everyone, perhaps even herself. My near death experience at her hands combined with her brazen violence and self gratulatory attitude for it demins the maximum penalty the law provides for–10 years minimum would be a good start. Patricidal Orphans have lost their humanity. This 48yo misanthropic patricidal maniac gloated and congratulated herself for letting me live while I struggled for almost three minutes to recover enough strength to get upright off the floor. She trivialized & made light of it to the 911 call center. No, I’m NOT “fine” & will never be after this. I lost a daughter–her children a mother. The responding Deputy could see from my bleeding eyes I was not “fine” as did the medics. Selena lied, denied she’d choked me. The most common cause of death in DV altercations is strangulation. That she couldn’t think of my birth date or name speaks volumes.

CLICK HERE to hear the audio of a remorseless orphan feeling sorry for herself.

Prior Paternal good deeds did not go unpunished. What’s the Biblical quote about casting pearls? The Stokers?–Selena was right about them…in spades. But, they were also right about her. Though she bridles at the allegation of being an unfit mother, She claims she couldn’t escape from the clingy violent perennial homeless psychotic (Robby) accompanying her in her van as she drove to Olympia from Portland to retrieve her children, adding them to the mix of Portland rapists, thugs, and Robby she argued she couldn’t escape that watershed Saturday in July, 2021. She did nothing to intervene when her ratso BF (James Wells, father of her 2 youngest) invited one of his heroin addicted friends to dry out for days under the same roof w/her children. The guy puked all over the bedroom and James left the slimy stench for Selen to clean up, Selena’s children to witness. Maya describes mounds of mouse shit on every shelf and surface. Selena’s common sense and judgment was non-existent, leaving her children in the care/company of violent psychotic strange men who she said they and their gangs held her against her will, sexually abused her, passed her around like a whore, and forced her to trade sex for drugs. This mother’s lack of a true moral compass or sense of direction can be measured in presuming she could protect them when she could not protect herself. The truth is much closer to Kathryn’s (Selena’s mother) observation Selena used her children to support herself on the public’s dime. When Selena’s children were illegally seized w/o due process in Oregon, Selena’s world fell apart, she found a Portland job in a desperate bid to recover her kids before felony FTA for trial, jumping bail, heisting the RV van she’d leased, and fleeing to Slab City, California (The most lawless enclave in America) before being set upon by some locals she’d sold her stolen can to without warning them. They hogties her (according to Selena) not out of predatiry instincts to sell into Mexican white slavery, but to teach Selena some manners. One must be very honest to live outside the law. Selena failed that litmus test. The lesson was harsh. Life on the streets of Washington D.C. seemed tame by comparison.

Selena’s Portland benefactors were shocked by the barbarity of the Stokers’ violation of my daughter’s (and her children’s) Civil Rights and Due Process–calling them monsters. As the truth crystalized, it turned out Selena had been the most pernicious monster all along. Where the Stokers piteously cut Selena’s children from half of their family, Selena was dead set on cutting them off from all of her family, repeatedly declaring to all who would listen she hated them all. Selena cast herself as the antagonist in her own rendition of The Last Picture Show.

Collect/funded calls from Selena @ (866)516-0115 jailhouse payphone after arrest for DV and Burglary in the wake of visiting her mother’s (Kathryn Stoker) residence:
7-20-21 9:09am 4m57s
7-20-21 9:18am 4m53s
7-20-21 9:25am 8m15s
7-20-21 9:43am 19m59s
7-20-21 10:06am 19m36s
7-20-21 10:27am 19m54s
7-20-21 10:49am 15m07s
7-21-21 2:25am 16m46s

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Case Information

25-1-00012-23 | STATE OF WASHINGTON vs SMITH, SELENA URSA

Case Number
25-1-00012-23
Deputy’s Report #: 25-00391

Court
Mason

File Date
01/09/2025

Case Type
PRE Pre Filing – Adult

Case Status
Active

Party

Plaintiff (Criminal)
STATE OF WASHINGTON

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Defendant (WIP)
SMITH, SELENA URSA

DOB
XX/XX/1976

Active Attorneys
TYLER Craig BICKERTON, 47990
Mason Co. Deputy—Prosecuting Attorney
Address: PO Box 639, Shelton, WA 98584-0639
Phone: (360) 427-9670 EXT 417
E-Mail: tbickerton@masoncountywa.gov
Admit Date:2014-10-20

Nicole S. Helser
Mason County Prosecutor’s Office – Administrative Secretary
Civil & District Court Division
P.O. Box 639
521 N. 4th Street
Shelton, WA 98584
(360) 427-9670 ext. 394
(360) 427-7754 Fax
NicoleH@masoncountywa.gov

Lead Attorney

Hack, Karl Alan (withdrew)/DALE BRAUNGER

Public Defender

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Charge

Charges
SMITH, SELENA URSA

		Description	Statute	Level	Date
	1	Non-Charge	NON	Non Charge	01/08/2025

Events and Hearings

• 01/09/2025 Preliminary Appearance Original Type
  Preliminary AppearanceJudicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D Hearing Time
  1:15 PM Result
  Held Comment
  1:15P Parties PresentDefendant (WIP): SMITH, SELENA URSA
• 1 01/09/2025 Affidavit of Probable Cause View Document Affidavit of Probable Cause
  (In the above PC affidavit, the arresting officer notes blood in the victim’s right eye, the kind of orbital hemorraging consistent w/strangulation. Selena’s denying and lying about her strangling the victim to a law enforcement official is a separate crime.
  
  She could have lawfully remained silent, but attempted to evade accountability by lying–a consistent pattern in her life reminiscent of the same pattern in her mother’s life–ultimately giving rise to the instant case and reflecting her obvious lack of remorse or accepting responsibility for her actions.
  
  Selena’s denial flies in the face of the officer’s observation along with the paramedics’ documentation, called to the scene of the crime. The victim experienced and relayed information to the paramedics his vision was blurred in both eyes from the blood in them. The victim knows this fact from personal experience.
  
  Selena’s sentence should be enhanced due to her deliberate lying when, in fact, she was verbally gloating and taunting her victim while strangling him. The fact she has but one good hand does not consider her strength, and the victim’s weakened elderly condition–the extent of his medical condition and infirmities well known to her.
  
  Additionally, there was an active struggle over the victim’s cell phone giving rise to her strangling him while claiming she would release him if he turned over his cell phone to her and promised not to call the police. The victim refused.
  
  Selena’s taunts were abusive and vile beyond imagination. She gloated at how he deserved to die. When she finally did release him, she pronounced she was more virtuous and better than him as reason for letting him live. In his shocked weakened state, it took him about 3 minutes to recover sufficiently to get off the floor and flee from his home. Selena followed him up the driveway.
  
  Selena commented at her Hearing the jail was comfortable, the food good along with the company she had. The bail amount was paltry–$5,000–considering the severity of the crime–deliberate attempted murder, if not premeditated.
  
  Selena is a woman who stabbed her husband with a butcher knife while in Germany, but suffered no consequences for it. The deja vu simply increases in severity and magnitude with time. This woman will end up dead or killing someone. She is a menace to herself and others, including her own family and children. She is hopelessly out of control.)
  
• 01/09/2025 JIS Check Confidential Document Cover Sheet
• 01/09/2025 Findings of Indigency
• 2 01/09/2025 Order Appointing Attorney View Document Order Appointing Attorney Judicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D Comment
  KARL HACK
• 3 01/09/2025 Transmittal on Copy of Order View Document Transmittal on Copy of Order Comment
  ORDER APPOINTING ATTORNEY
• 4 01/09/2025 Order for Pretrial Release View Document Order for Pretrial ReleaseJ udicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D
• 5 01/09/2025 Transmittal on Copy of Order View Document Transmittal on Copy of Order Comment
  ORDER FOR PRETRIAL RELEASE
• 6 01/09/2025 No Contact Order View Document No Contact Order Judicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D
• 7 01/09/2025 Transmittal on Copy of Order View Document Transmittal on Copy of Order Comment
  NO CONTACT ORDER
• 01/13/2025 Filing of Charges Info 
• 8 View Document Transmittal on Copy of Order
• Comment Judge Tirsa Butler assigned
• NO CONTACT ORDER
• SUPERIOR COURT DOCKETS – ZOOM MEETING ID (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
  (View Document)
• Criminal dockets and hearings – Defendants and Counsel appear in person unless otherwise authorized
• Criminal docket (Monday) ZOOM ID:907 729 4239
• Show Cause docket (Tuesday) ZOOM ID:907 729 4239
• Special set cases (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
• ID hearings (as needed / daily)
• 8a 01/13/2025 Information View Document Information
• 9 01/13/2025 Transmittal on Copy of Order View Document Transmittal on Copy of Order Comment
  INFORMATION
• 10 01/14/2025 Order Appointing Attorney View Document Order Appointing Attorney Judicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D Comment
  WITHDRAW: KARL HACK APPOINT: DALE BRAUNGER
• 11 01/14/2025 Notice of Appearance and Request for Discovery View Document Notice of Appearance and Request for Discovery Comment
  AND CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE / DALE BRAUNGER
  
• 01/21/2025 Initial Arraignment 
• Original Type
• Initial Arraignment
• Judicial Officer
• Cobb, Monty D
• Hearing Time
• 9:00 AM
• Result
• Held
• Comment
• 9A
• Parties Present
• Plaintiff (Criminal): STATE OF WASHINGTON
• Deputy Prosecuting Attorney: Bickerton, Tyler Craig
• Defendant (WIP): SMITH, SELENA URSA
• Attorney: Braunger, Dale Francis

• 12 01/21/2025 Order Setting Trial Date View Document Order Setting Trial Date Judicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D
• 13 01/21/2025 Transmittal on Copy of Order View Document Transmittal on Copy of Order Comment
  ORDER SETTING TRIAL DATE
• 02/10/2025 Omnibus Judicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D Hearing Time
  9:00 AM Comment
  9A
• 02/24/2025 Pre-Trial Management Hearing Judicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D Hearing Time
  9:00 AM Comment
  9A
• 03/11/2025 Trial Confirmation Judicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D Hearing Time
  9:00 AM Comment
  9A
• 03/11/2025 Jury Trial-12 Judicial Officer
  Cobb, Monty D Hearing Time
  9:00 AM Comment
  9A

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Written by Bandy X. Lee, 2-14-24

Family Court Judges’ Attempt to Influence Legislation Defeated (for Now)

A couple months ago, I gave the following testimony to the Washington State legislature:

My name is Bandy Lee, and I would like to express my strong opposition to H.B. 2237 and S.B. 5205, which will make the crisis situation in our family courts deadlier…. Giving family courts further legal ammunition could prove catastrophic.

In Washington State, the Superior Court Judges Association (“SCJA”) is proposing significant changes to … the most important statute governing parenting plan decisions in cases involving physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. House Bill 2237 adopts this proposal, and the companion bill, Senate Bill 5205, retains the original version proposed by SCJA that eviscerates the existing statute and case law protections for survivors of domestic violence seeking relief in family court. It does so by creating even more room for judges to remove children from their protective, non-abuser parent, and for the first time in decades, by allowing perpetrators of domestic violence to share decision-making with their victims. It makes it lawful for family court judges to remove children from non-abuser parents with mental health diagnoses such as anxiety or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which are common consequences of being a victim of violence.

Family Violence Appellate Project,[1] a leader in creating protections in case law for domestic violence survivors in family law, recently published a memo and line-by-line interpretation of the inherent dangers of this abuser-friendly proposal. For the protection of endangered children and their loving parents, and to prevent further family court-related deaths, H.B. 2237 and S.B. 5205 should not pass.

As legislatures are catching onto judicial abuses in the Family Courts, judges are now aggressively lobbying to pass laws that would make their power even more untouchable. Thanks to the heroic efforts of activists, “the Predator Bill” did not pass, against the attorney general, the WA State majority leader, and the Superior Court Judges Association. Unfortunately, like anyone who goes against this 50-billion-dollars-a-year industry that is always looking to expand its racketeering operation, the senators and representatives who opposed the legislation are facing a vicious smear campaign. The sheer aggression with which anyone trying to place limits are targeted, discredited, and attacked gives away the magnitude and degree of criminality that lies behind this “abuse industry.”

Criminal Courts vs. Family Courts

Hidden within the judicial system, few would believe that something presented as a “Court” is not a court of law but one of anti-law, and one that does not counter but commits crimes. Most people imagine something like the criminal courts, which reflect, more or less, our constitutional and democratic protections. However, there are extreme differences:

With all the problems that criminal courts have, usually racism, criminal courts have structured procedure you can hold them to. Violence is a serious offense and treated as such. The defendant is given a defense attorney who does his job of defending the accused, but the prosecutor also plays her role of presenting potentially incriminating evidence, and there is a jury of peers to hear the facts of the case and to serve as an additional check and balance.

Family Courts have an informal process that almost diametrically opposes criminal courts. What largely flourishes in Family Courts is not racism but sexism, which runs so unchecked as to become a massacre of women — and by extension their children — as I have written about. Far from having a structured process, just about “anything goes” in Family Court. Violence, rather than being taken seriously, is treated as nonexistent in a seeming fantasy notion of “ideal family.” Attorneys from both sides hardly have a role outside of facilitating predetermined judgments, and if they veer outside this task — such as truly defend their client — they risk being sanctioned or disbarred. This is because no one goes against the judge, who reigns supreme in her private fiefdom, in which no jury or public is allowed, where everything is kept under tight “seal”, while whistleblowers are persecuted and reporters punished for doing normal reporting.

In criminal courts, expert witnesses such as myself may be hired to do an evaluation of more nuanced areas that can be presented as evidence, which is examined and cross-examined. The better qualified I am, the more likely the court is to admit me for this task. Fact witnesses are also allowed. Defendant are given a trial within a reasonable timeframe if they refuse to settle — not years or decades — and judgments are made on evidence that rise to a standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

In Family Courts, sound evidence is seldom allowed and in many cases blocked, while specious “evidence” that bolsters the judge’s preferred narrative is elevated, including “experts” with questionable qualifications. In Family Court, the better qualified and more independent I am, the less likely the court will admit me as an expert witness, and inconvenient fact witnesses are blocked, also. Instead, hearsay and perjury prevail, as long as the judge likes what he hears, and even the lower burden of proof, “preponderance of the evidence,” is almost never met.

In criminal courts, the judge is more or less a person beholden to impartiality in charge of the trial, who ensures that the process is conducted fairly and who prevents spurious “evidence” from entering into the case. Counter-claims such as “parental alienation” seldom succeed, as prosecutors and judges are well-versed in criminal psychology and in the typical attempts by perpetrators to deflect charges or to “frame” others. And if the process still fails, there are the courtroom observers from the public or the media, and decisions can be appealed.

In Family Courts, the judge is beholden to no impartiality and has often decided in advance which side to favor, typically based on biases for the male gender or the larger purse — and female judges do not deviate from this rule, either, as they had to be “more male than the men” to have gotten to their positions. And pseudo-theories such as “parental alienation,” rejected across scientific communities and in criminal courts, flourish in Family Courts. Also, whereas criminal court cases end when a trial has concluded, Family Court cases persist almost indefinitely, needlessly muddying previously clear-cut cases and complicating already delicate issues, so that an outsider would not be able to decipher the truth — and this seems to be the purpose. Finally, because of the near-unlimited “judicial discretion,” appeals are seldom possible, let alone successful.

Family Courts are not only a travesty of justice, they are places where criminals are made innocent and innocent people are criminalized. They order children to their abuse at over twice the rate of childhood cancers, and child murders by parent might fall by 20 percent, if Family Courts did not get involved — and that is without counting the death rates of mothers, which are newly, astonishingly coming to light.

[1] Family Violence Appellate Project (2024). Advocate for Comprehensive Family Court Reform — Oppose Shortsighted Changes. Oakland, CA: Family Violence Appellate Project. https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vRZmyUAIlPdHNinMHwGK8XQriKXmxpxI3zNfdtvllGfmCn83S82V2_jM1QqMbDciJ3T0O3Nr-GrUdD4/pub?urp=gmail_link&pli=1

Case Information

24-3-00314-34 | STATE OF WASHINGTON vs JENNIFER COMO

Case Number
24-3-00314-34

Court
Thurston

File Date
03/20/2024

Case Type
MSC3 Miscellaneous – Domestic

Case Status
Active

Party

Respondent
COMO, JENNIFER

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Petitioner
WASHINGTON, STATE OF

Active Attorneys

Lead Attorney

FOSTER, CLAY

Retained

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Events and Hearings

• 1. 03/20/2024 Case Information Cover Sheet View Document Case Information Cover Sheet
• 2. 03/20/2024 Petition View Document PetitionComment
  for Enforcement
• 3. 03/20/2024 Motion View Document MotionComment
  for Contempt
• 4. 03/20/2024 Notice View Document NoticeComment
  and Finding of Financial Responsibility
• 5. 03/20/2024 Order to Show Cause View Document Order to Show Cause
• 03/20/2024 Ex Parte Action With Order
• 04/17/2024 Show Cause Judicial Officer
  Rue, Megan K Hearing Time
  3:00 PM
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• 7. 04/18/2024 Financial Declaration of Respondent View Document Financial Declaration of Respondent
• 8. 04/18/2024 Notice of Hearing View Document Notice of HearingComment
  Show Cause/Contempt
• 05/08/2024 Show Cause/Contempt Judicial Officer
  Rue, Megan K Hearing Time
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ER 904 NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN THE ABOVE CAUSE

The following links are password protected due to the sensitive nature of the evidence involving an ARY child in various states of undress, vaping, smoking illegal drugs, tattooing children, and aping all of this for the camera on her ssocial media accounts. It is furnished here pursuant to Washington State’s ER 904 intended for submission at trial and provided to the parties and/or their attorneys to the case along w/Nancy Tarbell, esq., an assigned investigative GAL in this cause. Because it involves minors, only authorized persons may view it, but may in no event distribute, share, or copy it to their personal devices. It is for Court/Litigation purposes only and to protect the child(ren)’s privacy. Any violation of these guidelines is at your peril. You have been warned. These files are offered here at Nancy Tarbell’s request as the investigatory GAL assigned to this case and only this case as well as to satisfy the ER 904 requirements and to alleviate bottlenecks at trial:

(This Data Base/evidence not intended for cell phones)

VIDEOS per ER 904 Supporting Heather Wood in this Cause:

Inasmuch as Heather Wood, mother, was granted the right to serve other parties Notic by e-mail, and inasmuch as this format most easily accomodates all the parties and is a standard online password protected format due to the sensitive nature of SOME of the evidence, the following matrix satisfies as follows:

ER 904 (Washington State)
ADMISSIBILITY OF DOCUMENTS

(a) Certain Documents Admissible. In a civil case, any of the following documents
proposed as exhibits in accordance with section (b) of this rule shall be deemed admissible unless objection is made under section (c) of this rule:
(1) A bill, report made for the purpose of treatment, chart, record of a hospital, doctor,
dentist, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, physical therapist, psychologist or other healthcare provider, on a letterhead or billhead;
(2) A bill for drugs, medical appliances or other related expenses on a letterhead or
billhead;
(3) A bill for, or an estimate of, property damage on a letterhead or billhead. In the case of
an estimate, the party intending to offer the estimate shall forward a copy to the adverse party
with a statement indicating whether or not the property was repaired, and if it was, whether the estimated repairs were made in full or in part and attach a copy of the receipted bill showing the items of repair and amounts paid;
(4) A weather or traffic signal report, or standard United States government table;
(5) A photograph, x-ray, drawing, map, blueprint or similar documentary evidence;
(6) A document not specifically covered by any of the foregoing provisions but relating to a
material fact and having equivalent circumstantial guaranties of trustworthiness, the admission of which would serve the interests of justice.
(b) Notice. Any party intending to offer a document under this rule must serve on all
parties a notice, no less than 30 days before trial, stating that the documents are being offered
under Evidence Rule 904 and shall be deemed authentic and admissible without testimony or
further identification, unless objection is served within 14 days of the date of notice, pursuant to ER 904(c). The notice shall be accompanied by (1) numbered copies of the documents and (2) an index, which shall be organized by document number and which shall contain a brief
description of the document along with the name, address and telephone number of the
document’s author or maker. The notice shall be filed with the Court. Copies of documents that accompany the notice shall not be filed with the court.
(c) Objection to Authenticity or Admissibility. Within 14 days of notice, any other party
may serve on all parties a written objection to any document offered under section (b),
identifying each document to which objection is made by number and brief description.
(1) If an objection is made to a document on the basis of authentication, and if the court
finds that the objection was made without reasonable basis, the offering party shall be entitled to an award of expenses and reasonable attorney fees incurred as a result of the required proof of authentication as to each such document determined to be authentic and offered as an exhibit at the time of trial.
(2) If an objection is made to a document on the basis of admissibility, the grounds for the
objection shall be specifically set forth, except objection on the grounds of relevancy need not be made until trial. If the court finds that the objection was made without reasonable basis and the document is admitted as an exhibit at trial, the court may award the offering party any expenses incurred and reasonable attorney fees.
(d) Effect of Rule. This rule does not restrict argument or proof relating to the weight to
be accorded the evidence submitted, nor does it restrict the trier of fact’s authority to determine the weight of the evidence after hearing all of the evidence and the arguments of opposing parties.

Xhbt: 1 Adeline Feulner, a 16yo Minor, Swimming Nude in Long Lake 10-31-23 @ 7:30pm

Src: 14yo Keira’s mother, Mrs. Robb–demonstrating Adeline’s mendacity to GAL claiming she was partially clothed–kying to a Court official. The Court sought to suppress this evidence of Adeline’s willingness to lie in order to hide her delinquency in drug use, drinking, tattooing minors. caping, and perjury. The Court vacuously argued this pattern of perjury in Court proceedings and its coverup of the fact were not of “legitiment public interest’ and was ‘child pornography”–a thinly veiled threat and attempt to intimidate the press. This video clip came after reaching the hands of Adeline’s mother AFTER being posted on social media by Adeline/Adeline’s underage friend.

Xhbt: 2 Feulner, a 16yo Minor, Swimming Nude in Long Lake 10-31-23 @ 7:30pm

Src: 14yo Keira’s mother, Mrs. Robb

Xhbt: 3 Dylan Castellani (child) tattooing Adeline Feulner ~1-11-24

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 4 Adeline Receiving obscene tattoos from a child (Dylan)

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 5 Dylan Castellani Tattoos Adeline w/Obscene Tattoos

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 6 Adeline gets Tattooed

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 7 Adeline Tattooing 14yo Child ~3-5-24 (Note scars on child’s leg from cutting)

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 8 Out of Control Adeline drinking and smoking MJ w/girlfriend

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 9 Adeline and Child friend Hospitalized due to Drinking

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 10 Adeline w/foot injury and no helmet w/dirt bike wearing sandals (2023)

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 11 Adeline Vaping in Motorhome Outside 94yo Grandmother’s home, no supervision

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 12 Adeline driving Mom’s sportscar w/o permission, alone.(2023)

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 13 Adeline vaping beneath remote Rochester Train trestle (2023)

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 14 Adeline Sneaks MJ vaping in Bus (2023)

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 15 Unsupervised Adeline Vaping in Motorhome adjacent to 94yo Grandmother’s home

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 16 Unsupervised Adeline vaping in MH next to 94yo Grandma’s home

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 16A Bored Addy w/o Supervision/Structure

Src: Adeline Social Media@ 94yo Grandmother’s home

Xhbt: 17 Adeline rapping obscenities

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 18 Adeline vaping in provocative dress on Tik Tok

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 19 Adeline vaping

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 20 Adeline vaping 2

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 21 Adeline vaping 3

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 22 Adeline vaping 4

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 23 Adeline’s Popsicle

Src: Adeline social media

DEPOSITIONS

Xhbit: 61 Keira Campbell Deposition on 4-22-24 in re Adeline’s truthfulness reputation

Src: Heather Wood, Deposing; John Smith, Notary Public, custodian of the record, recorder & recording equipment owner. i.e. It has been secured from the outset and is a true document

Xhbt: 62 Michelle Robb Deposition on 4-22-24 in re Adeline’s Reputation for Truth & Crime

Src: Heather Wood, Deposing; John Smith, Notary Public, custodian of the record, recorder & recording equipment owner. i.e. It has been secured from the outset and is a true document

Xhbt: 63 Paxton White Deposition on 4-25-24 in re Adeline’s bad/criminal acts targeting kids.

Src: Heather Wood, Deposing; John Smith, Notary Public, custodian of the record, recorder & recording equipment owner. i.e. It has been secured from the outset and is a true document

AFTER PHOTOS

Xhbt: 24 Keira’s Sword Tattoo after Adeline

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 25 Adeline’s Wrist Tattoo she denied

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 26 Adeline Vaping

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 27 Adeline Smoking MJ

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 28 Dylan Castellani tattooing Adeline Feulner

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 29 Adeline’s Fresh Tattoos

Src: Adeline Social media

Xhbt: 30 Adeline in provocative dress vaping under remote train. trestle near Rochester

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 31 Adeline motorhome vaping next to grandma’s home sans dad

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 32 Adelines MJ sneak smoking in Bus

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 33 Adeline bares it for social media

Src: Adeline social media

Xhbt: 34 Adeline’s Receipt for dad’s ski trip

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 35 More Adeline’s Receipt for dad’s ski trip

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 36 Adeline’s 27.5/wk work schedule (Taco Bell)

Src: Adeline

Xhbt: 37 Adeline in Spandex costume

Src: Adeline Social Media

Xhbt: 38 Noah Barber’s MJ and credentials, Great Wolf Lodge mgr & Adeline’s boss

Src: Adeline forensics

Xhbt: 39 Laura E Yelish, esq. (Extrajudicial communication w/Clucas)

Src: Laura Yellish social media

Xhbt: 40 Amanda Williamson, esq. (Extrajcial communication w/Clucas)

Arc: Amanda Williamson Social Media

Xhbt: 41 Commissioner Matthew Clucas

Src: Matthew Clucas Social Media

Xhbt: 42 Commissioner Matthew Clucas bench

Src: Matthew Clucas Social Media

Xhbt: 43 Lenard Feulner w/11yo Adeline

Src: Heather Wood photo

Xhbt: 44 Adeline nude at Long Lake 10-31-23 @ 7:30pm

Src: 14yo Social Media & Adeline Feulner

‘BEFORE’ PHOTOS

Xhbt: 45 Adeline 5yo

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 46 Adeline w/compost bike

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 47 Adeline and Dog

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 48 Adeline in garden

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 49 Adeline w/flowers in hair

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 50 Adeline Heather Shannon

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 51 Adeline w/honeycomb

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 52 Adeline hugs mom

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 53 Mom carries Adeline on back

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 54 Adeline and Mom w/bike

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 55 Adeline and mom w/bluebells

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 56 Adeline w/top bar comb

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 57 Adeline playing violin

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 58 Adeline’s wasp costume

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 59 Heather Wood singing

Src: Heather Wood, mother

Xhbt: 60 Heather Wood, mom

Src: Heather Wood, mother

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Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Mastering Cross Examination – In the Courtroom

Mastering Cross Examination – Investigation and Preparation

Seven Steps to Cross Examination

Stetson Student Ryan Schoeb Demonstrates Cross

Professor Charles H. Rose III cross examines a witness

Fundamentals of Cross Examination

MTA – Fundamentals of Cross

MTA – Direct Examination

Powerful Cross-Examination – Abe Hutt

Killer Cross Examination – Cooperating Witness Cross Examination By Attorney Neil Rockind

Cross Examination | 12 Truths, Tips, and Tricks!

Top 10 Objections in Court (MUST KNOW)

Using and Objecting to Evidence at Trial | Cordell and Cordell

Effective Trial Preparation | Cordell & Cordell

Fighting the Custody Battle Against a Selfish Parent | Cordell & Cordell

Things Judges Consider in a Child Custody Case

Effective Evidence to Gather in a Custody Case & How to Present that Evidence in Court

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The following is not intended to be medical advice. It is for informational purposes only, and general consideration. This is the third of a three-part series I have posted in relation to elder care.

As people age, dopamine levels naturally decline. This is a fact of life.

In a nation with aging Baby Boomers, political campaigners often frame voting decisions negatively knowing negative messaging helps to persuade older people. This is very different from how they target younger voters, which has more optimistic messages and focuses on benefits and rewards. As it turns out, the elderly and aged adults are more swayed by negative than positive messaging in study after study. The reasons are more fundamental in nature than you might think.

Dopamine plays a critical role in our perceptions of reward and pleasure. Why is it that aging adults increasingly have less of it? This is partly due to the increased activity of monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) as people get older. MAO-B degrades dopamine. This promotes falling dopamine levels. Every decade past the age of 45 dopamine levels decline by 13% on average. This decline is directly proportional with the increase in MAO-B.

Most drugs that have been developed in relation to neurotransmitters are for serotonin. Modern medicine continues to struggle with how to respond with effective treatments to a range of conditions and disorders promoted by dopamine dysregulation and decline. Some of these have focused on inhibiting the MAO-B enzyme. Others focus on nutrition, noting that a specific form of vitamin B12 helps protect neurons and prevent a decline in dopamine levels.

Dopamine is important to helping regulate mood, but it does much more than that. It’s critical to our cognitive health, and cognitive decline is known to accompany dopamine decline. It supports memory, retention and more. Dopamine not only maintains our motivation and feelings of pleasure but reduces risk for neurodegenerative illnesses. It isn’t just a neurotransmitter; it is known as the “feel-good hormone”. Low dopamine levels are associated with depression, aka “unhappiness”, dissatisfaction, etcetera. Dopamine is fundamental for movement, body coordination, learning and cognition. Sustaining and maintaining dopamine levels is so fundamental to the body it is associated with prolonged lifespans due to all the critical roles it plays in the body.

It is now known that MAO-B activity is higher in dementia patients than in non-impaired individuals the same age. Some feel this is an indication it has a strong role in neurodegeneration. Why? Increased MAO-B activity results in potentially damaging by-products that form and are known to contribute to diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease.

This is why it has become common for doctors to prescribe MAO-B inhibitors like Deprenyl (aka selegiline). People with dopamine deficiency related health issues need to retain more dopamine and stop its degradation promoted by increased MAO-B activity with aging. Once the symptoms surface suggesting the effects of dopamine decline, early treatment, or treatment as soon as possible (as identification and diagnosis allows), is better.

The drug Deprenyl is similar to discoveries made of some plants that naturally inhibit MAO-B enzymes. Phellodendron tree bark as one of the most potent plant-derived MAO-B inhibitors. This is NOT the same as the houseplant Philodendron. The Phellodendron tree is also known as the Amur cork tree. It has been safely used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries to treat various ailments. Lab experiments using extracts of Phellodendron bark selectively inhibited over 80% of MAO-B activity, which is comparable to the drug Deprenyl. Phellodendron also protects against neuroinflammation, beta-amyloid production, and other changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, while helping to maintain cognitive function. It has demonstrated anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, and antitumor properties.

Elevated MAO-B has known neurotoxic effects.

Those who take MAO-B-inhibiting drugs such as Deprenyl do not need to take Phellodendron. Neither is Phellodendron is not a substitute for physician-prescribed medications. However, plants like it were the inspiration for the modern medicines we have in this category of drugs that have proved useful.

A form of B12, adenosyl-cobalamin, has also been shown to prevent a decline in dopamine levels and protect neurons. Research for this was funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

None of this is to suggest that dopamine decline necessarily equates to poorer decision making. There is little difference between older and younger demographics in studies involving this question. However, the concern is quality of life for those aging and in their elder years, reducing pain and discomfort and extending good health in ways that must incorporate dopamine as a consideration in general health and maintenance, even as other aspects of health are.

I am not a doctor. I am not a medical expert.

The older people get, the more sensitive they are likely to become to sugar and salt. As a consequence, especially over time, this stresses organs, glands and systems of the body and its regulation. The heart and cardiovascular, the brain and nervous system, the gut, and especially the liver and kidneys, take the brunt of this. They get tired and exhausted, too, as we age. Giving them a break can be very meaningful for our health. For many, the first step in that often requires reducing or eliminating sugar, salt, or (ideally) both.

Hyperglycemia (diabetes) and hyperchloremia (high salt; electrolyte imbalance) can contribute to one another and both are hard on the body’s systems, processes and organs. Because of the stress that both induce on the kidneys, other imbalances may occur as well.

Reducing and eliminating sugar and salt has benefits for older adults where health issues begin to surface. First, it relieves stress on the kidneys and liver. Blood pressure goes down. The host of benefits is so great, in fact, it’s difficult not to perceive the “win” and upsides to managing to accomplish that dietary change. People often focus on one or the other, but both are important to achieve the full end benefits.

Vitamin D deficiency is more common the older adults get. This contributes to dopamine drop-offs and deficiency, as well as issues with bones and muscles. Vitamin D is important to bone maintenance in adult bodies. It assists in maintaining the balance of calcium in the blood and bones, among other factors. It plays a role with the nervous system, musculoskeletal system and immune system. Vitamin D must persist enough in the body for it to use calcium and phosphorous to build and maintain bones.

The food you eat, followed by sunlight, are the two best ways to acquire it, with supplements a third option.

People can develop chronic and/or severe Vitamin D deficiency. As a result, calcium and phosphorous absorption in the intestines leads to hypocalcemia. That means low levels of calcium in the blood. A secondary reaction to that by the body is hyperparathyroidism. The parathyroid glands become overactive in an attempt to keep calcium levels in the blood normal. In other words, rather than hyperparathyroidism being a primary diagnosis, it is a secondary diagnosis, with hypocalcemia being the primary diagnosis, and the underlying cause Vitamin D deficiency. Whenever we examine “hyper-” and “hypo-” conditions, understand that the body is an adaptive organism and attempts to compensate in response as it regulates. Therefore, the body’s overproduction or overactivity regarding some functions may reveal other physiological functions that are underperforming, upon further investigation. Identifying these contributes to generating more complete information that delivers better diagnoses and treatment.

Symptoms of hypocalcemia and hyperparathyroidism include muscle weakness, cramps, fatigue and even depression. It’s important to remember that mental health isn’t a complete diagnosis in its own right but is accompanied by underlying comorbid physical factors promoting mental health issues. For instance, depression is a common effect of stroke or cardiovascular conditions leading up to that. It is scientifically understood that treating mental health is insufficient without identifying and treating the underlying physical causes promoting it.

Secondary hyperparathyroidism takes calcium from the bones to maintain calcium levels in the blood. This accelerates bone demineralization. Older adult bodies heal and repair themselves at slower rates than their younger counterparts, so this condition is more profound in older adults since bone can breakdown faster than it can reform. Osteomalacia (soft bones) can result, along with osteoporosis and other conditions. This leaves older adults more vulnerable to bone breaks and fractures. Deformities in joints and incorrect growth patterns in bones that manifest as bowing or bent bones can emerge. This comes with bone pain and muscle weakness. Depression is also one of the symptoms.

Sometimes people don’t properly absorb or use Vitamin D. This can be the result of certain medical conditions or medications. Conditions of the kidney and stress on them are particularly noted for reducing the amount of certain enzymes the body needs to convert Vitamin D to a form it can use. What are these enzymes? Hepatic enzyme 25–hydroxylase from your liver and 1-alpha-hydroxylase from your kidneys. Insufficiencies in either of these enzymes leads to deficiencies of active Vitamin D circulating in the body.

A checklist of medications that can lower Vitamin D levels includes:
[] Laxatives
[] Steroids (example: prednisone)
[] Cholesterol lowering drugs (example: cholestyramine and colestipol)
[] Seizure preventing drugs (example: phenobarbital and phenytoin)
[] Rifampin (a tuberculosis drug)
[] Orlistat (a weight-loss drug)

Healthcare providers don’t usually order routine checks of Vitamin D levels.

Certain medical conditions or risk factors for vitamin D deficiency (or symptoms of it) warrant a Vitamin D level check. A provider must order it.

There are two types of tests. The most common is the 25-hydroxyvitamin D, known as 25(OH)D.

The goal of treatment and prevention is the same. Reach and maintain adequate levels of Vitamin D in the body.

Vitamin D supplements come in different forms, just like other vitamins. Some are more easily digested and assimilated than others. Sometimes a broken-down version of a vitamin is easier for the body to absorb and utilize where it is having issues breaking down or metabolizing it. This saves the body steps and bypasses problem points to resume or continue delivering the body what it requires nutritionally in metabolic processes for its greater tasks and functions.

The two forms of Vitamin D are D2 and D3. D2 comes from plants, known as ergocalciferol. D3 comes from animals, known as cholecalciferol. D2 is available in vegan form, while D3 is the commonly available form found in most vitamin supplements. Here is the difference between them. Other than acquiring a vegan multivitamin source with D2, it is usually given by prescription from doctors. While Vitamin D3 is considered more bioavailable and is sustained longer in the bloodstream and body, Vitamin D2 is considered more appropriate as indicated to treat calcium disorders and parathyroid disorders. It is also the preferred form for patients with chronic kidney disease or stressed kidneys. The vitamin D prescription people get from a doctor is typically for 50,000 units of vitamin D2.

Health issues and problems are complicated. Some of the remedies, if caught early enough, however, can be simple and significantly reduce these and extend health. We often treat the symptoms in modern medicine. Diagnostics are expensive. We forget the basics and the underlying good measures we can take to help ourselves. Medicines help, but they aren’t necessarily cures. I hope the simple practices described herein for reducing salt, sugar and understanding the underlying mechanisms at work prove useful or helpful if you are facing these kinds of questions and health issues.